researchers: how and why manage research data; cdu darwin 070915
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Charles Darwin University, Researcher Workshop Why do we care? Why research data? How manage data? 07.09.15
Dr Richard Ferrers, ANDS Charles Darwin Uni Outreach Officer
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Data Basics
What data do we care about?
3 http://researchdata.ands.org.au
4 http://researchdata.ands.org.au
What do we mean
by Research
Data?
Diagram sources: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx
… Why manage data?
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Why care about data?
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Surfing the Information Tsunami – tools to cope
90% of data generated in the last two years. IBM. nd. What is big data?
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Researchers
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175 Title: Data reuse and the open data citation advantage
Increase your citations by up to 69%
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Funders
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Australian Research Council ARC Discovery Grant requirements February 2014
Funders & Policy
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (NHMRC, 2007) SecCon 2: Management of Research Data & Primary Materials
Australia’s Chief ScienJst
“The collaboraCve response to global challenges isn’t possible unless we get [research infrastructure] fundamentals right first, and one of those fundamentals is sharing high quality research data.” Aug 2014
Australia – DeclaraJon of Open Government 2010
NESP – DEPT OF ENV’T. DATA AND ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES “Government agencies and research communiCes have idenCfied the need to promote open access to public sector and publicly funded informaCon. The Australian Government's posiCon is that informaCon funded by the Government is a naConal resource that should be managed for public purposes. Open access to Government funded informaCon is the default posiCon of the Department with excepCon only for privacy, security or confidenCality reasons. “
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http://www.environment.gov.au/science/nesp/publications/nesp-data-accessibility-guidelines
CDU POLICY 55 RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT POLICY “Research data management is a shared responsibility. Researchers, staff members and students must work in partnership to implement good pracCce in research data management compaCble with the University’s commitment to the highest ethical standards in research …”
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http://www.cdu.edu.au/governance/doclibrary/pol-055.pdf
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Governments “Making research data openly available helps to build then sustain… Australia’s comparative advantage. Australia’s research data is a significant national resource…”
“The Government also understands the importance of investment … [so] committed a further $300 million in the 2015 budget to continue to support NCRIS.”
Senator Scott Ryan Parliamentary Sec, Education & Training
Open Research Data Showcase, 19 June 2015
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Publishing data
Publishers
Nature
“…a condiCon of publicaCon in a Nature journal is that authors are required to make materials, data and associated protocols promptly available to readers without undue qualificaCons”.
h`p://www.nature.com/authors/policies/availability.html
CONCLUSION
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-‐> Research Data Management
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Store data: MANAGED Connect data: CONNECTED
(who), (why), (how, what), literature (what not), licensing.
Describe data; MANAGED
metadata adds context to data
Share / recycle data: FINDABLE
Publicise / publish your data Get data | Share data
=> Add value to data: REUSEABLE
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CDU Rsch Data Mgmt Resources http://libguides.cdu.edu.au/c.php?g=168003&p=1103174
DISCUSSION POINT
What are your data-‐sharing pain points?
CDU ANDS Library contact: Neil Godfrey
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Welcome to 21st century research challenges…
[email protected] ANDS – Charles Darwin University
Outreach Officer ands.org.au
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This work is licensed under a CreaCve Commons A`ribuCon 3.0 Australia License
ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the NaConal CollaboraCve Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).